For me:

1. Czechoslovakian Paper Money, 1918-1960
2. Spanish Paper Money, pre 1920's
3. Portuguese minor coins, all in BU early 20th century.
4. Anything nice from Sicily, Syracuse
5. Anything from ancient Tyra in Thrace.
6. French Paper Money until the intro of the Euro.
7. Russia - Tsarist type set, I once had complete set of Nikolai II(1894-1917) but sold all the gold:(
8. Siberia complete type set of bronze issues, all I need is nice polushka, or 1/4 Kopek
9. USA Saint Gauden's $20's in high relief and BU only. Okay shoot for the stars.
10. Great Britain Victoria type set in BU only, farthing to the Five Pound coin.

Right now I'm working on a Portuguese type set, pre-1970 back to as far as I can afford. Would like to get some 1500-1600 era coins

Philippine coins under U.S government control.

1. All polymer banknotes

2. All New Zealand coins and banknotes

3. Any colorful world banknotes

4. A complete set of 1972 olympic coins from every country

5. A $4 stella......only if i win the lottery

6. A complete set of all US copper

7. A complete set of US proof sets

8. A set of Australian Lunar coins

9. Any coin or banknote any of you want to send me that's free

10. Can't think of anything else right now

OK 10 areas..

1. Flying Eagle & Indian Head Cents

2. US Large Cents

3. US Type Set 1800 - present

4. 3d & 6d - One from each country that issued them

5. World - one coin and one note from every country

6. 6d & 3d - GB a rambling date set

7. The Laughing Coin Ranch

8. US Half Cents - right after I hit the lottery

9. US 1800 - present Gold Type set -- after lottery

10. Jeffersons.

In no particular order

1) Louis XVI Dixieme d'Ecu's, all dates, all mints in EF.
2) George II sixpences 1728-1741 date run, all types in EF.
3) George III half guineas by date
4) Roman denarii by deity
5) Roman denarii by Emperor (Augustus to Domitian)
6) King Stephen (1135-54) pennies by substantive type
7) Edward I (1272-1307) pennies by class
8) English gold quarter nobles by monarch
9) William IV (1830-37) Silver coinage by date
10) All things King Athelstan (924-39)


And of all those collection only 4 and 7 are cheap.

6 is doable and will be done one day hopefully. 2, 3 and 8 are doable also.

9 is a big task. 1 is impossible. As for 5, well dreams.

1. Morgan silver dollars complete set

2. Complete Lincoln set (including 1922)

3. Franklin half dollars complete set (FBL is preferred)

4. Anything German focusing mainly on the Third Reich and earlier.

5. Barber half dollars.

6. Indian Head cents.

7. Polish coinage

8. Austrian coinage.

9. Goetz medals (most recent area).

10. Basically anything else that interests me. I'll collect anything that has to do with coins or notes. I try not to stick with just one or two areas, too boring!

Numbers 2, 4, 7, and 8 are relatively easy to do. Seeing as foreign coins are a fraction of the cost of U.S. coins, I get more bang for the buck. The Lincoln cent set is down to about five coins.......the most expensive ones too.

Since this is on the World side, I'll do the world only. And in no particular order.

1. All German States
2. All German Commemoratives
3. All Czech Commems/Type Set
4. All Hungarian Commems/Type Set
5. Australian Commems/Type
6. All Polish Commems/Type
7. Czech Paper Money
8. Portuguese Type
9. More interesting medals.
10. Whatever strikes my fancy.

Don't collect Portugal, there is nothing to collect there, just move along.

I've always done Latin American countries. I didn't have room to list them all, but Portugal is one of the main ones I have most of.

The closest I can come to narrowing down to any praticular area is:

1. North Amerrica
2. Central America
3. South America
4. Europe
5. Africa
6. Asia
7. Australia

(I think I got them all)

1. British Victorian Type Set
2. British George IV Type Set
3. U.S. Type Set
4. Canadian Type Set
5. Australian Type Set
6. British Conder Tokens
7. British Victorian Medals
8. British Hammered by Type
9. World Coins With Ships
10. Everything from the rest of the world

When I refer to Type Sets, I mean one of every major type, including gold.

ummm, can you explain this to me, Tiff?? what does Latin American countries have to do with Portugal?? or did you mean Latin Union countries???

I'm pretty sure she meant "Ibero-American"...




Portuguese coins are common (very easy and cheap collection to do by type), there's plenty of them to everyone!!!

BTW, have you noticed that some Angola coins also use that 4/5/10/20 centavos type bust?

Let's see, my main "areas" in the last years in numismatics were (no particular order):

1. Portuguese type since Carlos I (done)
2. Maria II silver coins (these were actually designed by Wyon)
3. Large Portuguese X reis
4. Historical Portuguese types (older stuff)
5. Italy
6. Japan
7. Mexico
8. World circulation XXth century coins by type
9. World gold (1850-1933), one by country with a weight of about 1/5 or 1/4 oz.
10. Anything if i really, really, really like it...


Jose

And Guiné (Guinea-Bissau).

NO NO NO DO NOT COLLECT PORTUGAL. JoseMartins you are supposed to help me out now, not encourage others

Shhh, i don't want competition if someone tries to sell some of them around here...




Ok, then...

WOW! Aren't Andorra coins beautiful!!!

They sure are. EVERYBODY COLLECT ANDORRAN COINS.

What? Did I offend you? I actually didn't mean to put the American in there. I lump Spain and Portugal into my "Latin" collection.

You want a list from 1 to 10, you get a list from 1 to 10 ...

1. Coins from the Federal Republic of Germany, by year (but not mint mark).
2. Euro and pre-euro coins from the other euro countries, by type only.
3. German coins other than those of my country (ie. pre-1949 pieces, GDR coins, etc.); type only.
4. North American coins 20/21c (primarily circulation pieces); type only.
5, 6, 7: Coins from Europe other than 1 to 3; only what I like.
8, 9, 10: Coins from the world other than 1 to 7; hardly any "active" acquisitions.

And then, I like "coins on coins", and also commems from different countries that are dedicated to the same occasion. No need to be "complete" here though ...

Christian

Not offended, just confused. I thought maybe there were some teutonic plates shifting that I didn't know about and Iberia drifted over to Nicaragua or something. Not that it would be a bad thing. Maybe then Andorra could have some nice beach-front property.

Yes, he is right. You don't want those, save you money for better things, in fact nobody wants Portuguese coins.











Except me

Sorry Ykpa, I got "bribed" by Jose in a recent giveaway Gotta collect Portuguese coins

Vee do not shift. Vee shtay hier.

Back to the question, I think I am asking for an impossible quest, which is to collect these:

1) Type set of Imperial coins (very impossible) Sorry Ykpa, gotta conflict with yours there
2) Type set of Soviet coins (very doable but very expensive, thanks to recent precious metal price hike)
3) Odd metals excluding precious metals (or it will get too expensive)
4) Odd denominations (i.e. Dual denominations)
5) Dual languages or even more
6) Counterfeit coins that actually made it into circulation and how they went unnoticed
7) Ridiciously unpopular coins (why not? )
8) Nice examples of cheapo world coins
9) Huge chunk copper plates will be nice too and...
















10) Portuguese coins

You will be relieved to know then that i have no interest in Portuguese coins... except p'rhaps for 1780s ones with monarch portraits on them if such coins exist (probably gold only i'm thinking).

Yes, only gold, but if you got 600 "quids" laying around:

http://www.numisr.com/?cat=9&item=212



Jose

Woow!

Erm well i would say i had six hundred just lying around, but if i put my mind to it, it could be raised.

The collection would take another cut in numbers though.

I can't come up with ten areas to collect... But let's try:

1. Coins and banknotes of the Russian Empire until 1917
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. Other coins with beautiful designs or interesting history. (USSR, USA, UK, Germany, China, etc.) This is the one I should quit completely and sell the coins.

Number one takes practically all the resources I have for coin collecting, area is quite large as you can imagine. And it's my favourite, ofcourse.

I am a bad Finn, I collect Russian coins and there's a little (or not so little actually) monarchist in me

1-9 Plantagenet Hammered silver of England
10 Anything else that comes my way!!

Only 8 that stick out in my mind, in no particular order:

1. Large Cents

2. Better grade Indian & Flying Eagle cents and UNC Lincolns.

3. Shield through Jefferson nickels (focusing on Libertys at first)

4. Seated dimes through Mercuries (focusing on Barbers)

5. High grade Walking Liberty Halves

6. Peace Dollars

7. Silver Certificates

8. Gold Certificates

For me.

1. German States 17-19th centuries, mostly Thalers.
2. German Empire Marks
3. Austrian-Hungarian Empire
4. Spanish Colonies
5. Ancient Roman
6. Byzantine Empire
7. Philippines under US Admin.
8. Polish coinage
9. Historical medals worldwide
10. Anything that interests me at the time.

Ron

1) All Italian States from Napoleonic invasion to 1870, with preference for Papal Staes, Kingdom of Naples and Two Sicilies, Napoleon king of Italy.
2) Kingdom of Italy - V. Emmanuel III

I should like to begin a collection of Napoleonic medals, but I'm seeing that it is a hard job!

OK 10 areas.. the 2007 Version

1. Flying Eagle & Indian Head Cents
2. US Large Cents
3. US Type Set 1800 - present
4. 3d & 6d - One from each country that issued them
5. World - one coin and one note from every country
6. GEM BU Lincolns - a full date/mm set
7. GEM BU Jeffersons - a full date/mm set
8. US Half Cents - right after I hit the lottery
9. US 1800 - present Gold Type set -- after lottery
10. NGC Signature Set - Anniversary Coins
...


Resurrecting this thread is a nice way to link the years together. Nice job. Thanks.

10? Isn't that too much?

BY year, mint, varieties etc.
1 Latvia
2 Rest of the Baltics
3 Any coin circulated in Latvia
4 Europe XX

BY type:
5 Former USSR
6 European colonies
7 Rest coins

OTHER:
8 Banknotes, especially those circilated in Latvia
9 FREE SPACE FOR YOUR AD

SPECIAL:
10 Portugal, of course!

Someone here is a HUGE collector of Napoleonic medals and whatnot. Is it Bill or Elverno or someone else???

The reason of my new interest for Napoleonic medals is just the wonderful Elverno's collection!

My 10 for 2007:

1. Celtiberian coins
2. Celtic Gaul (focus on PIXTILOS type)
3. Republican Roman prototypes for PIXTILIOS types
4. Roman coins struck in Gaul
5. Carolingian
6. Bleisos-Chartrain feudal types
7. French jetons
8. Early American Medals
9. 1894 California Midwinter Exposition tokens and medals
10: Anything from my other interests that catches my fancy.

My ten areas of collecting:
Coins by type excluding gold and commemorative crowns issued after 1985.
1. Africa (18th century to 2000), including tokens
2. Africa before that: one coin from a ruler
3. Russian Roubles (1654-1917)
4. British coins when they were legal tender in African colonies (1797-1939)
5. French coins when they were legal tender in African colonies (1883-1945)
6. German coins when they were legal tender in African colonies (1884-1916)
7. Spanish (excluding Spanish colonial) coins when they were legal tender in Africa (1700-1966)
8. Other foreign coins which were legal tender in Africa (Dutch, including VOC from 1652 to 1802, some British and Portuguese India issues, Austrian Thaler 1780 restrikes with c/m, Ausrtian 20 Kreuzer from 1754 to 1848, etc.)
9. Portuguese coins from change to decimal coinage (1837-2000)
10. Brazilian coins (1834-2000)

I don't know if I can say 10 areas to collect, but let's see:

1) ROmanian Coins (from 1867 )
2) German Coins - Empire
3) German Coins - Weimar
4) German Coins - 3rd reich
5) Military occupation coins
6) Austrian & Hungarian Coins - 19th century
7) US Quarters
8) Swedish coins
and so on..
I don;t collect paper money,

1) Argentina (Coins and Bank notes 1813 -2007)
2) Brazil (Coins and bank notes)
3) USA (Coins only)
4) Italy (Kingdom and Republic coins)
5) Nicaragua (bank notes only)
6) Slovenia (bank notes only)
7) Poland (bank notes only)
8) Euros (coins and bank notes)
9) Latin american (coins and bank notes)
10) Europe (coins and bank notes)

1) Argentina (Coins and Bank notes 1813 -2007)
2) Brazil (Coins and bank notes)
3) USA (Coins only)
4) Italy (Kingdom and Republic coins)
5) Nicaragua (bank notes only)
6) Slovenia (bank notes only)
7) Poland (bank notes only)
8) Euros (coins and bank notes)
9) Latin american (coins and bank notes)
10) Europe (coins and bank notes)

For now

1 Philippines coins present downward

2 Ireland present downward.

3 Great Britain 1900 upward.

4 Circulating euro in ireland upward.

just collect coins on where Im based or living.

1. Latin America (can´t help admiring the latin american coins of XIX and early XX centuries)
2. Austria
3. Former countries/states/cities (Danzig for instance.)
4. German states
5. spanish colonial issues.
6. By design/beauty. Any coin with a design I like, I try to buy it.

Pity. I hear the notes are spectacular to collect.

1. Travancore coins
2. Other Princely Indian State coins
3. Imperial India coins
4. Independent Kingdom coins of India
5. Republic India coins
6. coins of famous rulers (Napolean I, Kaiser I, Tsar Nicholas, Alexander etc..)
7. Islamic country coins
8. old coins with beutiful designs (most of them have beautiful designs.. )
9. coins with history
10. British Commonwealth coins

1.UK Farthings
2.Irish Farthings
3.Jamaican Farthings
4.South African Farthings
5.Ringed Farthings
6.Fractional Farthings

This looks a bit limited in variety!!

7.UNC Brass 3d set
8.UNC BWA 1/10 Penny Set
9.UNC Guernesey 1 Double Set
10.BU Victoria Type Set - Copied this off Scottishmoney, and I have to admit it is one set I would love to own but cannot afford

I would say:

1. UK coins yearly releases (I always get the uncirculated set from the Royal Mint & try to get an example of a circulated coin for every year from 1p-£2)

2. New UK £20 note and also the new future £10 & £5 notes

3. Euro Coins (Got the complete set of Slovenia ones the other day loose), any country especially the more rarer ones.

4. USA President Dollar series

5. USA State Quarter Series (I have 2000-2005 sets already)

6. Isle Of Man Decimal

7. Falkland Islands Decimal

8. Finishing off my Jersey "Parish States" £1 set (I have 9 of the 12 designs, most virtually uncirculated)

9. Farthings from George III ==> onwards

10. Shillings & Double Florins from Victoria ==> onwards

I guess it's time for me to figure out my list.

1. U.S. Large Cents
2. Flying Eagle and Indian Cents
3. Modern Error Coins
4. Transit Tokens
5. Walking Liberty Halves
6. Early U.S. Commems.
7. WWII Banknotes (military issue)
8. Pre-Euro European Coins
9. American Eagle Proofs
10. Aluminum WWII coins